CelestinaBroadview Press, 25 באוק׳ 2004 - 603 עמודים Published here for the first time in a modern edition, Charlotte Smith’s third novel is both rivetingly plotted and unique for its time in its powerful depiction of a gifted Romantic woman poet. The novel’s heroine, Celestina, abandoned as a child in a French convent, becomes an independent, witty, and accomplished elegiac poet who, in a reversal of the usual pattern of the courtship novel, acts as a mentor to several men in her life. Written at the beginning of the French Revolution, Smith’s novel depicts characters challenging both corrupt authority and conventional morality, exemplifying her hope that English society was on the verge of a great change for the better. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and primary source material relating to the novel’s reception, its political contexts (writings by Reverend Richard Price, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Thomas Paine), and the author’s life. |
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תוצאות 1-3 מתוך 82
... wife . But she was very pret- ty . Her father left her unprovided for , and so she married perhaps more for money than love . My mother was the only child they ever had , and my grandmother , though her own education had only served to ...
... wife , by the laws of God and man , but I was absent with my regiment , I was unable to protect her — and the power of the governor of the province , and of an enraged and tyrannic father , were united to tear her from me . Would to ...
... Wife ( 1809 ) , recommends piety as the most important quality a man should look for in a prospec- tive wife . 3 Desmond ( 1792 ) , Smith's most pro - Revolutionary novel . 4 As often , following the American Revolution , patriotism ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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